Saturday, July 12, 2014

In love with Iron Man

Last
evening ended on a magical note because of Iron Man , the 2008 American superhero
film . It was one movie I had simply never got round to watching, in
spite of hearing a lot of positive talk about it. And am I glad I finally got to see it !!!

The story is
simple enough- Tony Stark ( Robert Downey Jr)inheritor ofdefense contractor, Stark Industries, is in war ravaged Afghanistan with
his entourage
to demonstrate the new missile "Jericho" from the stable of Stark Industries.
The convoy is ambushed and Stark is critically wounded by one of his own
missiles; he is captured and imprisoned in a cave by a terrorist group the . An electromagnet,
grafted into Stark's chest by fellow captive Yinsen
keeps the shrapnel shell shards that wounded him from
reaching his heart and killing him. Ten Rings leader offers Stark freedom in
exchange for building a Jericho
missile for the group, but Tony and Yinsen agree Raza will not keep his word.

They secretly build a powerful arc reactor powered by an electric generator , to
power Stark's electromagnet, and then begin to secretly build a suit of armor powered by the reactor, to escape. Yinsen dies in the escape attempt- but not
before speaking one of the most memorable lines of the movie, “Don’t waste your
life". It's good advice, but
there's no worry about wasting our precious time on this movie.

After being later rescued by Rhodes, Stark returns home and announces that his company
will no longer manufacture weapons. Downey
is a delight as the playboy in the early scenes. This Tony Stark is so much fun
to be around we're almost sorry to see his transformation take place. His
business partner, Obadiah Stane (a splendidly bald, bearded Jeff Bridges), is also
unhappy about the change.

The movie has a brilliant scene in
which Tony invites his assistant, Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow in a perfect
fit), to reach into the hole in his chest and fix his battery is a cheeky
cocktail of trust, disgust, love, sex, fear and courage (it also plays a key rolein subsequent developments), but
above all it plays funny. When a movie is firing on all those cylinders, you
know it's a winner.

"Iron Man" is a supremely
confident, well-tooled entertainment. The action is absolutely dazzling, the dialoguesare exhilarating, the comedy is scintillating and
the whole enormous movie throbs with
dramatic energy.
On my agenda- the sequels to Iron Man!!

About Me

I am a firm believer in Krishna's philosophy of Karma- and as a natural corollary to this belief have worked and lived so as to give grief to as few people as possible while enjoying my life , my work and myself.